Samuel N. Eminger and Rachel Singheiser

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Husband Samuel N. Eminger ¹

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           Born: 19 Feb 1829 - Cumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: David Emminger (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Magdalena Miller (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 4 Sep 1856 1

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Wife Rachel Singheiser ¹

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         Father: George Singheiser (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Halbert (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 F Arabella Eminger ¹

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         Spouse: D. A. Ulrich (      -      ) 1

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2 M H. Foster Eminger ¹

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3 F Luella Eminger ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel N. Eminger

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He attended the schools of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and afterward at Eminger's schoolhouse in Silver Spring Township, Cumberland County, and was one of the students in the first Cumberland Valley Institute. He attended two years. In 1844 he learned the trade of coach-maker under his brother-in-law, George Hauck, and from 1849 to 1851 traveled in Virginia and the Carolinas, Tennessee and Florida. He returned to Mechanicsburg and bought the first patent and brought the first wire tooth sulky rake into Cumberland County about 1852, and started to manufacture them in company with George W. Miller, but subsequently sold his interest to Frederick Seidle who had then a factory in Mechanicsburg. In 1855 Mr. Eminger was nominated deputy sheriff under Sheriff Bowman. He resigned in the autumn of 1856 and was elected register of wills in the autumn of 1857, serving three years. He was appointed by Judge Graham jury commissioner, and served three years. In 1864 he was appointed special agent of the Treasury Department under Andrew Johnson. He resigned on the 1st of March, 1868, and his resignation was accepted in June following. From this time until 1873 he was with D. M. Osburn & Co., who were engaged in manufacturing reapers. From that time (1873) on, he was in the sheriff's office till 1877; served as deputy register under Martin Guswiler, and after, until elected clerk to the county commissioners in 1879, which office he filled until 1885.
During the Civil War Mr. Eminger enlisted in Company F, First Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, when they were called temporarily for the defense of Pennsylvania; was elected lieutenant and promoted to quartermaster. The company served only for a short time. Mr. Eminger was a member of Eureka Lodge, A. Y. M., Past Master by service, and also of the I. O. O. F., No. 215. In politics Mr. Eminger was a Democrat, and for many years was strongly identified with the politics of the county. He twice wasa chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and was a delegate to many of the state conventions. In 1878 he was elected councilman of the North Ward and served three years, notwithstanding that this was a Republican ward.

1 —, History of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Warners, Beers & Co., 1886), Pg 412.